CHAOS IN HAMASISTAN

FATAH FIGHTS FATAH. FATAH FIGHTS HAMAS. ISRAEL WISHES BOTH SIDES GOOD LUCK.

Thousands of Fatah Members Protest in Gaza
Thousands of activists from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party demonstrated in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, burning abandoned cars, shooting in the air and demanding corrupt leaders resign after their devastating election loss to the militant Hamas movement. With Hamas winning a strong majority in parliamentary elections, Abbas said he will ask the Islamic group to form the next Palestinian government, but Fatah rejected a role in the new Cabinet and Israel ruled out peace talks in what could be the first steps to isolate the militant group after its election victory.

Acting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asked world leaders not to legitimize a government led by Hamas, saying elections are not a "whitewash" for terrorist groups. Livni told reporters that Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last summer opened a window of opportunity in peace efforts, but with the election of Hamas, "the Palestinians slammed it shut."

In the first real violence since the vote, an argument between about 20 Hamas and Fatah loyalists in the Gaza town of Khan Younis grew into gunfire and rock-throwing Friday that left three injured. One man was treated for gunshot wounds and two for minor injuries caused by rocks, according to witnesses and hospital officials.

On Friday night, thousands of Fatah activists burned the abandoned cars outside the Palestinian parliament building in Gaza City and shot in the air, calling for the resignation of corrupt party officials and insisting that Fatah form no coalition with Hamas. About 1,000 angry party activists, including 100 gunmen, drove by Abbas' Gaza residence, although he was not home at the time. The Fatah defeat was seen as a rebuke to veteran — and corrupt — party leaders who have resisted calls for reform by its young guard.

After evening prayers, the protesters went back to Abbas' house, and fired in the air before marching and driving through the city, waving Palestinian flags, yellow Fatah flags and posters of the late Yasser Arafat. "We don't want to join the Hamas government. We don't want corrupt leadership. We want reform and we want to fire all the corrupt," one group of thousands chanted at an earlier demonstration at the Gaza City parliament building.

"This demonstration is a natural reaction of Fatah supporters and members. We have one demand: that the (Fatah) Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council should resign immediately," said Samir Mashrawi, a local Fatah leader who lost in the election. The protesters did not specifically call for Abbas' ouster.

In the West Bank city of Hebron, about 500 Fatah members, including some gunmen shooting in the air, marched to the local Fatah office, where one of them read a statement demanding the resignation of the central committee.

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